Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jester from Mississippi? Grinning malignantly at the Republican side of the Chamber, he said: You've had political toothache ever since the November elections and now you are applying every remedy to ease your suffering and your pain." Then he looked at Sen. David Reed of Pennsylvania and said, "Mellon's man Friday"; turned to lame duck Senator Harreld with something about a "tall gusher from Oklahoma...
...October, 1877, Mr. Eliot married Miss Grace Mellon Hopkinson. In the midst of his labors as President, he always found time for recreation with his family and for exercises in the open air. In the summers, especially, he took great pleasure and found much credit in cruising...
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon announced last week that Representative Ogden Livingston Mills of New York would succeed Garrard B. Winston as UnderSecretary of the Treasury. Mr. Mills was not expected to go to his new post until February inasmuch as he is an important member of the Ways and Means Committee of the House, which has tax reduction and alien property bills to consider at the winter session. A man with political ambitions and no longer young, who recently battled to be Governor of New York, cannot be expected to tuck himself quietly away in "the little Cabinet."* Perhaps...
...accounts for the excess of this year's budget over last year's. Le Senat- ¶Welcomed back into its ranks Senator Victor Henry Bérenger who resigned last week as French Ambassador to the U. S. M. Bérenger whose "businesslike" personality impressed Secretary Mellon most favorably and went a long way toward making possible the Fran-co-U. S. debt agreement which they mutually negotiated (TIME, May 10) was in high dudgeon on the occasion of his resignation last week because Premier Poincaré appears to have abandoned all immediate intention of trying...
Thereupon, with General Andrews and Secretary Mellon agreeing, the Treasury Department announced that it would ask Congress to provide for the organization of a private corporation under Federal control to buy all medicinal spirits now in warehouses and distilleries and to manufacture additional necessary liquors. The Government would name the original Board of Directors and would audit the books to assure the sick public of reasonably priced whiskey. It will require $150,000,000 to finance such a corporation. If the Government cannot find proper private capital, it will ask Congress for an appropriation...